[Dorset] OT: Reading and Copying UFS Formatted Hard Disks

2013-09-02 Thread d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk
Hi, Anyone have any experience of mounting disks formatted as UFS? I only need read capability, so I can get some data off the disk, but our efforts to mount the thing were defeated here on Friday. We have a Sparc Ultra 5 box here which has fallen foul of the 'IDPROM contents are invalid' fault

Re: [Dorset] OT: Reading and Copying UFS Formatted Hard Disks

2013-09-02 Thread Justin Stringfellow
Terry, I've got a spare Ultra 5 you can borrow... unfortunately I'm in Belgium until Friday. You can get round the idprom issue with some gnarly forth mkp OpenBoot Prom commands: http://www.squirrel.com/squirrel/sun-nvram-hostid.faq The Ultra 5 is a sun4u architecture machine, so follow those

Re: [Dorset] Reading and Copying UFS Formatted Hard Disks

2013-09-02 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, Anyone have any experience of mounting disks formatted as UFS? I only need read capability, so I can get some data off the disk, but our efforts to mount the thing were defeated here on Friday. Could the partition(s) be seen? What were you attempting, something like mount -t ufs

Re: [Dorset] Reading and Copying UFS Formatted Hard Disks

2013-09-02 Thread Terry Coles
On Monday 02 Sep 2013 10:50:57 Ralph Corderoy wrote: Could the partition(s) be seen? What were you attempting, something like mount -t ufs -o ro,ufstype=sun /dev/sdb1 /tmp/mnt, assuming sdb? If the drive can be read, e.g. sudo dd if=/dev/sdb | od -c | less, but the partitions not identified

[Dorset] Fwd: Re: OT: Reading and Copying UFS Formatted Hard Disks

2013-09-02 Thread Terry Coles
Just realised that Justin's earlier post was sent to me and only copied to the LUG; when I replied of course it only went to him. My other post won't make sense without this one. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting:

Re: [Dorset] Fwd: Re: OT: Reading and Copying UFS Formatted Hard Disks

2013-09-02 Thread Terry Coles
On Monday 02 Sep 2013 17:35:13 Terry Coles wrote: Just realised that Justin's earlier post was sent to me and only copied to the LUG; when I replied of course it only went to him. My other post won't make sense without this one. Hmm. When I forwarded my earlier post KMail usefully added it

Re: [Dorset] Reading and Copying UFS Formatted Hard Disks

2013-09-02 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Could the partition(s) be seen? What were you attempting, something like mount -t ufs -o ro,ufstype=sun /dev/sdb1 /tmp/mnt, assuming sdb? If the drive can be read, e.g. sudo dd if=/dev/sdb | od -c | less, but the partitions not identified then you can

[Dorset] Bournemouth Pub Meeting Tonight, Tuesday 2013-09-03.

2013-09-02 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi, It's the pub meet tonight at The Broadway, 8pm-ish. For those that haven't been before look out for a clutch of laptops or Terry's stuffed penguin. http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=members#terry_coles As the first web